Sir Sachin Tendulkar - The Greatest Cricketer Ever

[ajithfederer]

He batted at the nets on Tuesday for longest period of time to ensure that his finger has healed enough after that injury from fielding at first slip in the first Test. His palms were hurting at times, but he decided to weather the storm. He battled the spinners and then took on the quicks with aplomb.

He was willing to battle through pain and in the end looked pleased that he was able to break the threshold barrier.

At the end of it all, the bandage on his injured finger was taken off and he was smiling from end to end at another opportunity to win a series abroad.
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[ajithfederer]

Sachin Tendulkar smashing the Sth Africans at Bloemfoentein



It has been a long time since I saw this innings.

Here is Sachin Tendulkar making 155 against the South Africans at Bloemfoentein in 2001/02.

P.S: Eventhough Shewag and sachin scored centuries we lost this match.

[P_R]

Sehwag's debut match, right ?

[ajithfederer]

Yeah and the next suspended match, mike denness incident, ball tampering, blah blah bla series !!.

Sehwag's debut match, right ?

[ajithfederer]

http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...357247&start=1

tendulkars inning in NZ 1994
Date-stamped : 13 May94 - 18:24
India vs New Zealand, 2nd One-Day International
Played at Auckland, 27th Mar, 1994

I've been very lucky doing IRC commentaries. Firstly I was on
when the NZ/Pak ODI4 ended in a tie. Today, it was an "out of
this world" innings by one particular player.

The game was NZ vs India, ODI2. It was at Auckland, where both
the NZ vs Pakistan ODIs had been played on a very substandard
wicket, and coincidently where the tie had taken place. Today's
wicket was reckoned by the TV crew as likely to play much better,
so much so that Ken Rutherford batted when he won the toss and
later we found out Azhar would also have done had HE won it. When
Hartland and Young came out, however, it was obvious that the
Indian bowlers were able to get heaps out of it. It was slow; it
allowed sideways movement; it was stopping a little; and there
was a bit of swing as well. Srinath was getting the ball to
seam in and the batsmen weren't getting any in the middle of the
bat.

Later, when conditions had eased somewhat, it played slow,
slow, slow, and the NZ batsmen Parore and Harris were having
great difficulty in hitting the ball off the square. Parore, in
particular, was having a hard time of it and, time and again, he
played to leg off his pads straight to mid wicket or square leg.
Harris did better, partucularly when given width outside the off
stump, but there was nothing about this pitch which gave any hint
of what was about to descend on the poor NZ bowlers. Harris
played well for 50 off 72, aided by a bit of slogging at the end,
and NZ got up to 142.

Circumstances conspired to give us our man-of-the-match.
Navjot Sidhu had a bit of a neck strain and was unable to take
his place in the side. He was replaced by a bowler (Chauhan).
This left India one batsman short and with a dangerously long
tail. India promoted Sachin Tendulkar to open with Jadeja in the
hope of getting some quick runs in the first 15 overs when the
fielding restrictions were on. Quick runs? The game was, for all
intents and purposes, OVER in 15 overs. Tendulkar had done his
job and was out early in the 16th over. The raw stats said he
scored 82 runs off 49 balls, but this was no slogger whose wicket
didn't matter. Morrison, Pringle, and, later, Larsen had no idea
what hit them. Some players are known for strokeplay, some for
timing, some for sheer butchery. Today, Tendular displayed all
three traits at will. There aren't too many players who can
switch from a pushed drive with hardly any follow through that
whistles past the bowler for four, to a clean, crisp, hit over
the bowler's head for six over long on, to a savage pull-cum-on-
drive off the back foot through the mid wicket area, according to
the length and direction of the ball. His run chart showed 15? 4s
and three sixes, the vast majority in the "V."

The NZ bowlers weren't that bad really. Morrison was coming
through at a reasonable clip - around the 130kph mark and bowled
several demanding balls to the other players. The others bowled
as usual. In the end, the players were laughing - they realised
there was just nothing to be done - a sort of resigned
submission. Had Jeremy Coney been playing he would have
resurrected his white handkerchief for sure . To their credit
they kept their heads up and kept going. It was Matt Hart who got
him out. Tendulkar, as he has done often enough before, got over
confident and started mucking about. First ball of the Hart over
Tendulkar aimed a very cheeky sweep and missed it. Next ball he
played lazily forward and was c&b from a leading edge. At this
stage the "worm," the graph that charts each teams' comparative
progress, was a real embarrassment for NZ. There was more far
more daylight between the two curves than there was between the
NZ curve and the x axis!

Hart and Harris tidied it up for NZ after this, but the
result was never in doubt. The other players, Jadeja, Kambli,
Azhar, Manjrekar, all played well, but in comparison were
pedestrian.

The funniest part of the day for me was being asked several
times who the man of the match was.

On a more serious note yet. Despite losing (miserably) it was an
awesome innings to watch. Tendulkar was in truly magnificent
form. Virtually everything he hit was hit with a straight bat but
with such power and timing that it went for four or six. In fact
a large number of the fours were one bounce into the fence. What
was worse he was still thinking. Every time the bowling was
changed he would take 4 or 5 balls to look at the bowler and only
then start playing strokes. He even watched the field changes
carefully and played with them in mind not only hitting thrugh
gaps but also when fine leg was brought up to let long on go back
he played down through fine leg for four!!!

The commentators will rave about this innings for a long time.
For my money it was the best display of powerful well timed
CRICKET that I have ever seen. I emphasise the cricket because
all of the shots were classical cricket strokes played with a
straight bat and a high elbow. Beautiful to watch.

[P_R]

Feddy வேண்டுகோளுக்கு இணங்க

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பாலைத்துறையினில் வாகைத்திணையதை பொருத்துவதில்லை நற்பாணர்
சாலைக்கடந்திட தேவைநெறிமுறை மீறுவதுண்டே சிலபொழுது
ஏழையிவனது உவகைநினைவுகள் உட்படவில்லை சட்டகத்துள்
காளையுட்புகு பீங்கான்கடையதை நினைவில் நிறுத்திய ஒரு பொழுது

மாலைசித்திரை வெயில்மணலது சூறாவளியில் சுழன்றதுபோல்
ஓராளை எதிர்கொள மஞ்சள்ளணிபவர் பத்தோடொருவரும் உழன்றாரே
வாளைவீசுடும் வேங்கையொன்றதை சொல்லிலடைப்பதும் சாத்தியமோ
ஏழையிவனது ஆசைக்கெனவோர் அரிசிப்பதத்துடன் நிறுத்திடுவேன்

ஜ்வாலைப் பார்வையை கண்ணிலிருத்தி சடுதியில் வீசிடும் காஸ்ப்ரோவிச்
பாலை எதுவோ மிதசுழற்பந்தன் எவனோ ஒருவன் போட்டதுபோல்
சேலை அணிந்திடும் மாதர் அவரது நளினம் கலந்த கொலைவெறியில்
மூலை ஒன்றதில் ஆழக்களித்திடும் மாந்தர் இடமதைப் பதித்தானே

நாளைமுதுமையில் பேரும் பாலும் உறவும் மறக்க நேர்ந்திடுமோ
ஓலைப்படுக்கையை நோக்கிடும்போது நாரணன் பேர் சொல மறந்திடுமோ
ஒரு வேளை - அதுபோல் இதுவும் ஒருநாள் மறந்திடவேன் என பயங்கொண்டே
வாலைப்பருவ காலத்தில் கண்ட பேரழகிங்கிதை வரைந்துவைத்தேன்

[ajithfederer]

A Record Might be Unknown to Many
The leader, with 497 Test runs between dismissals, is India's Sachin Tendulkar. He made 241 not out and 60 not out against Australia in Sydney in 2003-04, and later that season made 194 not out against Pakistan in Multan, before falling for 2 in the next Test. second is gary sobers 490 and third is kumar sangakara with 479

http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...41445982098062

[ajithfederer]

http://content.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/112811.html

Tendulkar's class not enough to hold off New Zealand fightback

Lynn McConnell

December 4, 2002

Just when it seemed India would take the Super Max international off New Zealand in Christchurch tonight, Andre Adams produced a fine two overs to carry the Max Blacks to a 21-run win.

Adams ended the game with five wickets for 33 runs off his four overs, including three for 15 in his two overs in the second innings.

The night may have been chilly, but the drizzle held off and the two sides did battle in superb style in front of a crowd of 10,005.

The crowd were treated to the genius of Sachin Tendulkar, whose first innings of 72 off 27 balls demonstrated the brilliance of his batting, and helped him gain the man of the match award. It didn't matter that he had never played the game before. He took to it just as would be expected of a player of his stature, with all the class of a champion.

It didn't take him long to find the lucrative Max zone behind the bowler and he plundered the bowling as Tama Canning and Jacob Oram went for 25 runs each off successive overs.

To further magnify the undoubted quality he brings to any match, he took five wickets for 55 runs, including twice picking up the prized wicket of New Zealand captain Chris Cairns, both to catches made right on the boundary.

Shiv Sunder Das was another key man for India on the night, hitting 25 off 13 in the first innings and 28 off 19 as India attempted to lift its scoring rate as it chased for victory. However, he clubbed a ball in the region of point on the boundary where Scott Styris took the third of his catches in the innings.

New Zealand were not without moments to admire also as Nathan Astle and Craig McMillan combined in a second-wicket stand of 72 runs in short time in New Zealand's first innings.

There was also the sight of the potential in Brendon McCullum with his second innings 60 off 28 balls. He had only the one innings in the game as he shared the wicket-keeping honours with fellow wicket-keeper Chris Nevin who had scored 18 off 10 balls in his only innings.

What made McCullum's effort all the more important was that New Zealand lost Astle, McMillan and Cairns, when they started their innings 10 runs behind the Indians. It needed one batsman to play a key innings and McCullum did that.

He should not have done his prospects of some further international play this summer any harm either.

Canning chimed in with some useful support at just the right time with two sixes in his innings of 15 off five balls.

But it was ironic in a game made for batsmen, that it was the New Zealand bowlers who closed down the Indian batsmen to secure the win.

At the start of the second innings as India sought the 109 for victory, it was Oram who found the right length to contain Tendulkar and then as he tried to hit his way out of trouble, Styris held the chance at mid-wicket.

Then, as India tried to do the almost impossible and score 44 in the last three overs, Adams and Paul Hitchcock closed them down so that at the end they were 22 runs short of success.

Hitchcock, making his first international appearance in New Zealand took one for 16 in the second innings to end with three for 40 for the game.

Indian captain for the night V V S Laxman said his side had found the game "quite exciting although it is tough on the bowlers.

"Initially, we bowled really well because it was hard not knowing much about the fielding plan needed.

"Sachin played an amazing innings and he's obviously the best batsman in the world.

"The game was very useful for the one-day series ahead but it was difficult to judge the New Zealanders from this. Shane Bond is obviously a quality bowler.

"We know we are up against a quality team but we know that if we play up to our best we can beat any side in the world," he said.

"It was a very good effort without knowing how it is played," he said.

© Cricinfo

[ajithfederer]

http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_data...IND_IN_NZ.html

http://content.cricinfo.com/ci/conte...ch/112812.html

[Nerd]

PR,
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